Re:OptiKey – Full computer control and speech with your eyes
by JeffKang2 on Monday September 14, 2015 @04:31AM
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You'd perhaps need something like this to come closer:
>Microsoft patents eye-tracking keyboard software
The idea’s just like swipe-based keyboard software, but instead of tracking the motion of your fingertip, the system tracks eye movement.
As your glance moves from key to key, darting around and changing direction, a devices camera records its gaze, and with a little algorithm magic, Microsoft tries to work out just which keys you were looking at – and ultimately, what word you were attempting to construct.
(Not a criticism of the excellent work here. It's a fundamental bandwidth problem.)
Concretely: In the time the demo took to write "Meet OptiKey. Full computer control and speech using only your eyes.", I wrote in an Android text area: "I am just typing words as quickly as I can in the android interface. I'm even having to think a bit about it more that I've written so much. uh, hello world? and other stuff. I'm still going and going and going." Including the missing "now" between "more" and "that", and you can't see it but I had to correct 3 words, too. That's about three times faster on the phone I have in my pocket. And let me just say... that is impressive performance for a free eye tracking suite, in my opinion, to still be that fast with just eyes.